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Time Out New York Blog
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Playbill

* Engeman Theatre's Oliver! to Star DeJean, Benari and Kleeman
* Seldes and Copeland Will Be Part of An Evening of Theater: Three Short Plays
* Birkett, Gillespie, Lindars, Field and More Join Cast of West End's Priscilla Queen of the Desert
* CBS' "Early Show" to Welcome Equus Star Nov. 18
* Minnelli Will Guest on "Rosie Live" Variety Special

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Wintuk
This time of the year is stressful enough - do you really want to also weigh down your family theatregoing with burdens such as plot? If you’ve had enough of it, then proceed to the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Cirque du Soleil has remounted its seasonal spectacle Wintuk minus most of the story and the ritualistic spirit that characterized its premiere production last year.

CurtainUp

Reviews: The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's Shogun Macbeth\ & Roust Theatre Company's Macbeth

An Angry White Guy in Chicago

As to the Question of Artistic Content
In a comment to a recent post by my man Mr. Thurman, he claims:

The Guardian Performing Arts Blog

Lyn Gardner: Theatre should usher children into the real world
Let's see more plays encouraging young audiences to engage with serious issues rather than escape them

The Stage UK - Blogs

Mark Shenton: Christmas in New York….
There may still be 38 days to go before Christmas actually arrives, but I have already experienced Christmas twice over in New York (and that’s before we even get to Christmas in New York , the third annual celebration...

Whatsonstage.com

News: Bourne Revives Crisp Role in Anniversary Alien
Bette Bourne will reprise his award-winning portrayal of the late Quentin Crisp in Resident Alien::E8821008342146 in a limited ten-week season, from 3 February to 5 April 2008 (previews from 28 January) at north London’s New End Thea...

Gossip: Baby P Provides Inspiration for Backlash Theatre???
An intriguing experiment in what new writing company Nabokov has coined “backlash theatre” is underway this week. As the term suggests, “backlash theatre” gives playwrights an opportunity to respond directly to issues in the news. And pretty imme...

Feature: Jeremy Herrin On ... TS Eliot, The Playwright
This month, the Donmar Warehouse presents a festival dedicated to TS Eliot (1888-1965), the Nobel Prize-winning, American-born poet, playwright and literary critic. Eliot’s plays include The Family Reunion, Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party, but he’s best remembered for his poetry including The Waste Land...

Whatsonstage.com - Off-West End & Fringe

Sweeney Todd, Union Theatre
I was slightly nervous about returning to the Union so soon after the barn-stormer that was The Mikado; surely lightening can’t strike Southwark twice, so soon? Ha! This Sweeney Todd is as grimy, gritty, delicious and blood thirsty as one would expec...

Dear Heart, King's Head
As family affairs go it doesn’t get more personal than this. Emigrée director Jenny Davis has cast her Australian daughter and son-in-law in a tale she herself has culled from hundreds of letters sent by her late Aunt Wynne to her husband, Harold ‘Mickey’ Brooks, throughout the ...

Smith, British Museum
Part of the British Museum’s new Babylon exhibition, InSite Performance’s production of Smith has its origins in writer-director Jacqui Honess-Martin’s discovery of the eponymous Assyriologist while engaged in her own research into The Epic of Gilgamesh, in the BM’s Ancient Near East department. ...

London Theatre Guide

Nominations open for Theatregoers’ Choice Awards
Theatregoers wanting to have their say on the best of London theatre in 2008 can do just that in the ninth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, for which nominations are now open.